Friday, March 27, 2009

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FBI’s Most Wanted Lists Get High-Tech Makeover


Posted: 26 Mar 2009 08:16 PM PDT



If you’ve earned yourself a spot on the FBI’s Most Wanted list,
you have a lot more to worry
about these days than seeing your

picture on the wall at your local post office.


The agency has begun to use some very cool high-tech tools to
capture fugitives —
and to find missing persons, too.


The bureau recently upgraded its use of widgets mini-applications

that can be added to a Web page or a PC’s desktop and updated

remotely by simply copying and pasting Web code.


It has designed interactive iPhone-looking posters that bloggers and

MySpace and Facebook users can embed on their pages to showcase the

bad guys.


There are weekly podcasts, e-mail alerts and digital billboards posted

across the country that have directly led to the capture of at least 70

fugitives.


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Office in Salt Lake City A Terror Target?


Posted: 26 Mar 2009 08:09 PM PDT



A building in downtown Salt Lake City was considered a terrorist target

in the weeks after the Oklahoma City bombing, according to internal

FBI memos recently made public.


A communique from FBI headquarters suggested the building, which

houses the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Utah, was to be the third target

on a nationwide terror spree.


The first target was the federal building in Oklahoma City.


“The third target is an attack at the north east corner of 2nd Street and

State street south of the *(Not the target), Salt Lake City, Utah, slated

for a lethal type device on 6/19/95 (daylight hours),” the memo reads.


Other targets included buildings in Pittsburgh, Raleigh, Las Vegas and

Chicago.


The memo was included in a series of documents given to Salt Lake

City attorney Jesse Trentadue, who has filed a freedom of information

lawsuit against the FBI and CIA in connection with the Oklahoma City

bombing. Trentadue is investigating the death of his brother, Kenny, a

convicted bank robber who was picked up for a parole violation in
the frantic months after the April 19, 1995, bombing that killed 168.


Trentadue believes Kenny was mistaken for an associate of convicted

bombers Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols and killed in an

interrogation that went horribly awry.

The federal government maintains Kenneth Trentadue committed

suicide in his federal prison cell.


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White House to Keep Agencies Focus on Terrorism


Posted: 26 Mar 2009 08:03 PM PDT



The Obama administration is moving to solidify one of the most significant

shifts of resources put into place under President George W. Bush: the

transformation of the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of

Investigation into agencies where the top priority is counterterrorism

rather than conventional law enforcement.


Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and other Justice Department

officials have emphasized that they will not cut resources allocated to

national security in the foreseeable future, and the director of the

Federal Bureau of Investigation, Robert S. Mueller III, told

lawmakers on Wednesday that “we have no intention of retreating

from preventing a terrorist attack on American soil as our No. 1

priority.”


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